Ron DeSantis Is All In—on Creating an American Autocracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“Our government is a government of laws, not a government of men,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declared last August, standing at a podium in Tampa with a phalanx of armed officers behind him. “That means that we govern ourselves…
It’s Official. Biden Is Running Again.
Mother Jones illustration; Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s official. President Joe Biden is running for reelection. In a video released on Tuesday morning, Biden announced he was running to “stand up for democracy,” echoing a similar theme to his first campaign.…
Progressives Win a Majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mother Jones; Morry Gash/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz won a critical seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, giving progressives their first majority on the court since 2008 and a pathway to challenging the GOP’s decade-plus stranglehold on…
This Race Could Decide the Fate of Democracy in Wisconsin—and the 2024 Election
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On December 12, 2020—a day after the US Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by Texas that sought to void the presidential election results in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—the Wisconsin Supreme Court heard a separate challenge by Donald…
Election-Denying Former Colorado Official Guilty of Misdemeanor Obstruction
David Zalubowski/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Tina Peters, the former Colorado election official who has been charged with election fraud, could be going to jail for obstructing a government operation. Peters made national headlines last year when she pleaded not guilty to numerous…
Biden: Those Three Aerial Objects We Shot Down Probably Aren’t Spy Balloons
AP Photo/Evan Vucci Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.President Biden on Thursday, in his most detailed remarks addressing the recent spate of aerial objects that were shot down over North American skies, said that there is no evidence tying the three unidentified objects to…